Markides Pouliou brothers

[1] The Markides Pouliou brothers worked for Joseph von Baumeister, an Austrian lawyer who founded a printing house at his office in Vienna.

After Baumeister was appointed teacher at the Austrian Royal Court in 1792, the Markides Pouliou took the direction of his printing house.

[5] In October 1797, the printing house of the Markides Pouliou published 3,000 copies of a manifesto written by the revolutionary Rigas Feraios.

It contained a declaration of the rights of man, a Greek constitution, a proclamation and a call to arms to the Balkan Christians to fight for their freedom[6] against Ottoman rule.

The Markides Pouliou brothers were accused with having helped Feraios spread his revolutionary message, and in February 1798, their printing house was closed and they were expelled from the domains of the Habsburg monarchy, with them being left alive because they were Austrian citizens.